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Abbey of the Dunes, 172-176; of Melrose, 173 Adinkerque, 159, 176 'Adoration of the Immaculate Lamb,' 69 Albert, Archduke, portrait at Furnes, 126; at the Battle of the Dunes, 135, 140, 142; marries the Infanta Isabella, 136; character of, 137, 138; wounded, 142 Albert, Prince, at Bruges, 82 Ancona, Bishop of, 35 André, St., village of, 23 Âne Aveugle, Rue de l', 15, 17, 23 Angelo, Michael, 30 Anglaises, Couvent des Dames, 27 Antwerp, Cathedral of, 29, 68, 108 Arschot, Duc d', 139 Artevelde, Jacques van, 61, 125 Artevelde, Philip van, 67, 104 Artois, Comte d', 52, 53 Augustinian Nuns, 27

Baldwin, Bras-de-Fer, real founder of Bruges, 14; defends Flanders, 15; marries Judith, 14; builds Church of St. Donatian, 15 Baldwin, King of Jerusalem, 33 Baldwin of Constantinople, 149 Baldwin VII., 18 Bannockburn, 52 Bardi, money-changers at Bruges, 66 Bassin de Commerce at Bruges, 58 Battle of the Dunes, 135 et seq. Battle of the Golden Spurs, 45 et seq., 52 Béguinage at Bruges, 27; grove of, 7 Béhuchet, Nicholas, 63, 64 Belfry of Bruges, 5, 6, 7, 9 Belgian Parliament passes law for harbour near Heyst, 90 Berlaimont, Comte Florent de, 139 Bernard, St., of Clairvaux, 32 Bertulf, Provost of St. Donatian, 19 Bexley, 175 Bicycles, import duty on, 97 'Bird of Honour,' 82, 83 Blankenberghe, new harbour near, 90; English fleet at, in 1340, 62, 153, 154 Boniface VIII., 49 Bouchoute, Hôtel de, 4 Borthwick, Colonel, 78 Boterbeke, 8, 9 Bourg, Place du, at Bruges, 15, 16, 17 Brangwyn, William, 36 Breidel, John, 45, 48, 50, 52 Breskens, 69 Bristol, Earl of, at Bruges, 77 Bruges, described by John of Ypres, 8, 9; origin of name, 9; primitive township of, 10; boundaries in early times, 10; Market-Place, 4, 5, 45; Halles, 5; early trade, 10; the Loove at, 20; growth of, 18; capital of West Flanders, 14; Baldwin Bras-de-Fer its real founder, 14; Place du Bourg, 15; murder of Charles the Good, 18; Joanna of Navarre at, 46; death of Marie, wife of Maximilian, 30; Hôtel de Ville, 67; Customs House, 57; Oriental appearance in Middle Ages, 75; produce sent to, in Middle Ages, 65; Hanseatic League at, 66; Consulates at, 66; splendour of, in Middle Ages, 67, 68; under the House of Burgundy, 68; loss of trade, 68, 69; pauperism, 74; Charles II. at, 75 et seq.; list of Charles II.'s household at, 77; death of Catherine of Braganza at, 27; fate of Church at French Revolution, 86; Napoleon at, 36; state of, since Revolution of 1830, 86; English Jesuits at, 85; Queen Victoria at, 82; relic of Holy Blood at, 32 et seq.; Procession of the Holy Blood, 36 et seq.; relic of the Holy Cross, 30 Bruges Matins, 17, 45 Brussels, Charles II. at, 81; Church of Ste. Gudule, 30; Hôtel de Ville, 67 Burchard, 19, 20, 21 Burgundy, Charles, Duke of, 30 Burgundy, House of, 107 Burnet, Bishop, 80 Butler, Mr. J., 79, 80

Caine, Mr. Hall, 153 'Cairless,' Mr., 77 Capucins, Chapel of, at Furnes, 128 Casa Negra, 87 Cathedral of Antwerp, 30 Cathedral of St. Martin at Ypres, 138 Cathedral of St. Sauveur at Bruges, 30, 37, 86 Catherine of Braganza, 27 Celestine III., 175 Chapel of the Capucins at Furnes, 128 Chapelle du Saint-Sang (St. Basil's) at Bruges, 32, 35, 37, 86 Charlemagne, 13 Charles II. of England at Bruges, 75 et seq. Charles the Bald, 13 Charles the Bold, 30 Charles the Good, 18-24 Charles V., 137 Charles VI., 112 Châtillon, Jacques de, 48, 49, 50-53 Chemins-de-fer Vicinaux, 96 Church of Jerusalem at Bruges, 30 Church of Notre Dame at Bruges, 86 Church of St. Donatian at Bruges, 86 Church of Ste. Walburge, 88, 124 Cistercians, 174, 175 Clairvaux, 32 Clauwerts, 17, 46 Clement V., 34 Clement VII., 105 Cologne, 76, 79 Comte de la Hanse, 66 Congress of Vienna, 113 Coninck, Peter de, 45, 47, 48, 50, 52 Consulate of France, 88; of Spain, 8; of Smyrna, 87 Coolkerke, 70 Courtrai, 52, 96 Couvent des Dames Anglaises, 7, 27, 82 Coxyde, 172-174 Cranenberg, 4 Crecy, Battle of, 63 Cromwell, 76, 79, 84 Customs House at Bruges, 57

Dalgetty, Dugald, 77 Damme, 10, 48, 49, 50, 57 et seq.; population of, 59; Röles de, 66; harbour blocked up, 69 Dampierre, Guy de, 46 David, Gerard, 68 Deprysenaere, Jean of Ypres, 117 Digues de mer, construction of, 157, 158 Donatian, Church of St., built by Baldwin Bras-de-Fer, 15; Bertulf, Provost of, 19; site of, 16; murder of Charles the Good in, 17; destroyed, 86 Don John of Austria, 76, 79 Dordrecht, 30, 31 Duinbergen, 62, 166, 167 Dunes, Battle of the, 135; scenery of, 177 et seq. Dyver, the, at Bruges, 9, 10

Edward III., 61-63, 66 Edward IV., 30 Egmont, Count, 110 Elias, sixth Abbot of Coxyde, 174 English Merchant Adventurers, 88 Erembalds, 18 et seq.; feud with Straetens, 19; destruction of, 23 Ethelbald, 14 Ethelwulf, husband of Judith, daughter of Charles the Bald, 14 Evendyck, 149 Eyck, van, elder and younger, 16, 23, 68, 57, 147

Flanders, state of, in early times, 7, 8; invaded by Normans, 13; origin of title 'Count of,' 14; defended by Baldwin Bras-de-Fer, 15; allied to England, 62; neutrality of, in 1340 and 1830, 61; invaded by French, 67; plain of, 95 et seq.; ignorance of country people in, 97; smuggling between France and, 99; annexed to France, 46, 112; invaded by English, 104; causes of disunion in, 118, 119; ceded to the Infanta Isabella, 136; contrast between different parts of, 147, 171; coast of, 147 et seq. Flotte, Pierre, Chancellor of France, 49, 53 Flushing, 69 Fox, Sir Stephen, 84 France, Flanders annexed to, 46, 112 France, Palais du, 7, 73 French Consulate at Bruges, 88 Furnes, 124-132; procession of penitents at, 127; Church of Ste. Walburge, 124; Hôtel de Ville and Palais de Justice, 124; Church of St. Nicholas, 124; Corps de Garde Espagnol and Pavillon des Officiers Espagnols, 126

Gand, Porte de, 17 Gardiner, Dr., quoted, 60 Gauthier de Sapignies, 51 Genoese merchants, house of, at Bruges, 88 George III., 84 Germany, emigrations from Flanders to, 150 Ghent, 22, 48, 96 Ghiselhuis, 67 Gilliat-Smith, author of The Story of Bruges, 6 Gloucester, Henry, Duke of, 75 et seq. Godshuisen, 74 Golden Fleece, Order of the, 30 Golden Spurs, Battle of the, 18, 45 Golf in Belgium, 163-166 'Governor of the English Colony beyond the Seas,' 88 Grande Dame of Béguinage, 28 Grande Salle des Echevins at Bruges, 45 Great storm of thirteenth century, 150 Gruthuise, 7, 31 Guildhouse of St. Sebastian at Bruges, 7, 82 Gustavus Adolphus, 77 Guy de Dampierre, 46

Haecke, Canon van, 34 Halle de Drapiers at Ypres, 115 Halle de Paris at Bruges, 88 Halles at Bruges, 5 Hamilton, Sir James, 78 Hanseatic League, 66 Het Paradijs, 32 Heyst, 62, 90, 153, 154 Hobbema, 176 Hogarth, 41 Holland, Béguinages in, 27 Holy Blood, relic and chapel of, at Bruges, 16, 32; Procession of the, 36 Holy Cross, relic of, 30 Holy Sepulchre, Church of, at Jerusalem, 33 Hoogenblekker, 148 Horn, Count, 111 Hôtel de Bouchoute at Bruges, 4 Hôtel de Ville at Bruges, 7, 16, 17, 67, 91; at Furnes, 126 House of the Seven Towers, 75, 76, 83 Hyde (Lord Clarendon), 77, 78, 81

Idesbaldus, St., 174 Inquisition in Flanders, 127 Isabella, the Infanta, 111, 126, 138

Jerusalem, Baldwin, King of, 33 Jerusalem, Church of, at Bruges, 30 Jesse, Memoirs of the Court of England, 84 Jesuits at Bruges, 85 Joanna of Navarre, 46 John of Ypres, 8, 9 Joseph II., 86, 112 Joseph of Arimathæa, 33 Judith, wife of Baldwin Bras-de-Fer, 14, 124 Justice, Palais du, at Bruges, 16, 17; at Furnes, 124

Kadzand, 65 Kermesse, 101, 102 King, Thomas Harper, 36 Knights of the Golden Fleece, 30 Knocke, 62, 65, 156, 164, 165

Lac d'Amour, 28, 29 La Panne, 153, 156, 159, 160 Le Coq, 153, 162-164 Legend of Montrose, 77 Lejeusne, Mathurin, 128 Leliarts, 17, 46 Leonius, 34 Leopold I., 82, 151 Leopold II., 163 Lilly the astrologer, 78 Lincoln, Bishop of, 35 Lombaerdzyde, 136, 140, 176, 177 Longfellow, quoted, 5,42, 66 Loove, the, at Bruges, 20 Louis of Maele, 67, 105, 107 Louis of Nevers, 61, 67 Louis XIV., 111 Louvain, 27 Luxembourg, 111 Lyger, 172

Maele, Louis of, 67, 105, 107 Maison des Orientaux, 87 Mannaert, 128 Marbriers, Quai des, 15 Mariakerke, 152 Maria Theresa, 112 Market-Place of Bruges, 3, 4, 5, 9, 45, 47 Mary, 'The Gentle,' 30 Matins of Bruges, 17, 45 Maurice of Nassau, 135, 140, 142 Mauritshuis at The Hague, 177 Maximilian, Archduke, 4, 68 Mazarin, 76 Melrose Abbey, 173 Memlinc, 7, 68, 88 Meuninxhove, John van, 83 Michael Angelo, 30 Middelkerke, 152, 153 Minnewater, 28, 29 Miracles wrought by the Holy Blood at Bruges, 35 Morgarten, 53 Mother Superior of Béguinage, 28 Murray, Sir Robert, 77

Napoleon at Bruges, 36; return from Elba, 113; canal to Sluis constructed by, 58 Navarre, Joanna of, 46 Neutrality of Flanders in 1340 and 1830, 61 Nevers, Louis of, 61, 67 Nicholas I., Pope, 14 Nicholas, Sir Edward, 77 Nieuport, 135-144; origin of, 149; besieged by Prince Maurice, 140; fallen state of, 143 Nieuport-Bains, 144, 147, 153, 159 'Nieuwerck,' at Ypres, 115 Nimeguen, Treaty of, 111 Nivelles, 139 Noé, Michael, 82 Normans in Flanders, 13 Norwich, Earl of, 77, 78 Notre Dame, Church of, at Bruges, 7, 29, 86 Notre Dame de Lombaerdzyde, 176 Notre Dame de Thuine, 108

'Old England' at Bruges, 88 Oosterlingen Plaats, 87 Oostkerke, 59 Orientaux, Maison des, 87; Place des, 87 Ormonde, 77, 81 Osburga, 14 Ostend, growth of, 142, 151, 153, 154 Otlet, M. Paul, 154 note Ouden Burg, 7

Palais de Justice, at Bruges, 16, 17, 20; at Furnes, 124 Palais du Franc, 73 Paradijs, Het, 32 Parijssche Halle, 88 Paris, 159 Parma, Duke of, in Flanders, 109 Pauperism of Bruges, 74 Philip II. cedes Spanish Netherlands to his daughter, 136 Philip III., 136 Philip of Valois, 61, 64 Philip the Fair, 45, 46, 48, 49, 52 Place des Orientaux, 87 Place du Bourg, 15, 16, 17 Pont des Dunes, 175 Pope Clement V., 34; VII., 105; Boniface VIII., 49; Celestine III., 175; Urban VI., 105 Poperinghe, 116 Porte de Damme, 50, 58 Porte de Gand, 17 Porte Ste. Croix, 50, 51 Procession of the Holy Blood at Bruges, 36 et seq.; of Penitents at Furnes, 128 Pruyssenaere, Peter, 82

Quai Espagnol, 87; Long, 57; des Marbriers, 15, 73, 75; du Miroir, 57; de la Potterie, 57, 58, 175; du Rosaire, 9, 57; Spinola, 57, 88; Vert, 73, 128

Rastadt, Treaty of, 112 Richard I., 174 Robinson, Mr. Wilfrid, author of Bruges, an Historical Sketch, 6 Rochester, Earl of, 77 Rodenbach, 89 Röles de Damme, 66 Rome, flight of Baldwin and Judith to, 14 Roosebeke, Battle of, 67, 104 Rosaire, Quai du, 9 Roulers, 104 Route Royale, 159 Roya, 8, 9, 10, 15, 57, 58 Rue Anglaise, in Bruges, 88; de l'Âne Aveugle, 15, 17, 23; des Carmes, 82; Cour de Gand, 87; Espagnole, 86; Flamande, 88; Haute, 75; Neuve, 10; du Vieux Bourg, 7, 9, 10, 76 Ruysdael, 176

Santhoven, 149 Scarphout, 150 'Schielt ende Vriendt,' 51 Schomberg, 111 Schoutteeten, 30, 31 'Scotland,' at Bruges, 88 Scottish merchants at Bruges, 88 Scott, Sir Walter, 77 See-Brugge, 90 Senlis, 14 Sheppey, Isle of, 174 Sluis, 50, 59, 65, 67, 69 Smith, Gilliat-, 5, 6, 23, 24 Smet de Naeyer, Comte, 156 Smyrna, Consulate of, at Bruges, 87 Spaniards, at Bruges, 87; at Furnes, 126, 127 Spanish Inquisition, 127 Spencer, Henry, Bishop of Norwich, 104 St. André, Village of, 23 St. Basil, Church of, 32, 86 St. Bavon, 68 St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 32, 175 St. Donatian, Church of, 86 St. George, Society of, 81, 82 St. Idesbaldus, 174 St. John, Hospital of, 7 St. Martin, Church of, at Furnes, 108 St. Nicholas, Church of, at Furnes, 124 St. Omer, Jesuits of, 85 St. Peter's, at Ghent, 22 St. Sauveur, Church of, 7, 24, 30, 37, 86 St. Sebastian, Society of, at Bruges, 81, 82, 84; at Ypres, 104 Ste. Elizabeth, Church of, 7, 29 Ste. Gudule, Church of, 30 Ste. Monica, Church of, 27 Ste. Walburge, Church of, at Bruges, 88; at Furnes, 124, 174 Straetens, 19, 20 Stübben, Herr, 166 Swift, Dean, 41 Sybilla, wife of Thierry d'Alsace, 33 Sydenham, Colonel, 77 Syria, 30

Tarah, Viscount, 76 'Ter Streep.' 148 Thierry d'Alsace, 32 et seq., 149 'Thuindag,' 108 Thurloe State papers, 77 Titelman the Inquisitor, 126 Torquemada, 127 Tournai, 96 'Tower of London' at Bruges, 88 Turner, Sir James, 77, 80

Valois, Philip of, 64 Van Eyck, 16, 23, 57, 68, 147 Vauban, fortifies Ypres, 103, 111, 112 Verhaeren, M., Belgian poet, 162 Vienna, Congress of, 113 Vieux Bourg, Rue du, 7, 9, 10 Virgin and Child, Statue of, at Bruges, 30

Urban VI., 105

Victoria, Queen, at Bruges, 82

Walburge, Ste., Church of, at Bruges, 88; at Furnes, 124, 174 Walcheren, 69 Waterloo, Battle of, 36, 113 Weavers, Guild of, 47 Wenduyne, 149, 153 Westcapelle, 59 Westende, village, 136, 140; Plage, 156, 157, 159, 160-162 William, Bishop of Ancona, 35

York, Duke of, at Bruges, 76 et seq. Ypres, 103-119; field preaching near, 109; churches sacked, 109; taken by Parma, 109; by the Protestants, 109; Place du Musée, 110; besieged by Louis XIV., 111; fortified by Vauban, 103, 111-113; ceded to France, 111; described by Vauban in 1689, 112; taken by the French in 1794, 112; during the Hundred Days, 113; end of military history, 113; Grand Place and Cloth Hall, 114; monopoly of weaving linen, 116; manages with Bruges the Hanseatic League in Flanders, 116; the Nieuwerck, 115; riots at, 117, 118; siege of, by English, 104 et seq.; John of Ypres describes early Bruges, 8, 9 Yser, 135, 136

Zwijn, 10, 60, 62, 63, 69 Zuyder Zee, 150